July 29th, 1941 (TUESDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM:
ASW trawler HMS Buster launched.
Submarine HMS Ultimatum commissioned.
U.S.S.R.:
Moscow: Stalin demotes General Georgi Zhukov from the position of chief for the General Staff, for advising a tactical surrender at Kiev, replacing him with Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov.FAR EAST: Vichy France signs a treaty giving Japan control of its colonies in Indochina in the event of enemy attack. The Japanese occupy southern French Indochina with the permission of the French.
U.S.A.: The US Secretary of the Navy approves the installation of a Radar Plot aboard aircraft carriers as "the brain of the organization" protecting the fleet from air attack. The first installation is planned for the island structure of USS Wasp (CV-7).